3. Organizational Strategies

Leverage available staff and student labor in an academic library to build new tools for patrons.

Achieve successful interdepartmental collaboration projects.

Build a searchable, indexed EAD finding aid database in a low-staffing environment.

From 2013 to 2015 the Metadata and Cataloging Dept. of UNR Libraries led a successful effort across four departments to build a searchable database for special collections finding aids. Find out how this collaborative project was conceived and managed to make thousands of collections newly searchable and discoverable by patrons.